Vaccine Schedule

We understand that as parents, we want to do everything we can to protect our kids. We are parents,too. As pediatricians, we treat our patients like our own family. So let’s prevent what’s preventable!

The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends immunizations as the safest way to prevent disease, disability and death. The AAP calls for the on-time, routine immunization of all children and adolescents according to its policy, Recommended Immunization Schedules for Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years or Younger, United States.

We firmly believe in the effectiveness of vaccines to prevent serious illness and to save lives. We firmly believe in the safety of our vaccines. 

We firmly believe that all children and young adults should receive all of the recommended vaccines according to the schedule published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

The reason why we do not see these horrible diseases is because vaccines do their job. 

Because of vaccines, many of you have never seen a child with polio, tetanus, whooping cough, bacterial meningitis, or even chicken pox, or known a friend or family member whose child died of one of these diseases. In our careers as pediatricians, we have personally seen children suffer from vaccine-preventable diseases. It is devastating. We promise you, you do not want your child to get any of these diseases.

Delaying or breaking up the vaccines to give one or two at a time over two or more visits goes against expert recommendations and there is no way to know if offering them at different times even produces the appropriate immune response. It is inappropriate medical care.